The Dorrington Deed-Box IllustratedThe Dorrington Deed-Box Illustrated

Download or read book The Dorrington Deed-Box IllustratedThe Dorrington Deed-Box Illustrated written by Arthur GeorgeArthur Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dorrington Deed Box is a collection of short stories by the British writer Arthur Morrison published in 1897. It contains six stories featuring cases of the unscrupulous London-based private detective Horace Dorrington, told from the viewpoint of one his clients and potential victims James Rigby.It was part of a general boom of detective stories in the wake of Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes. Morrison had previously written stories about an honest private detective Martin Hewitt, but with Dorrington he created a more cynical character who won't hesitate to commit armed robbery or murder to suit his own ends.